Vanilla kernel build

[codingfreak]

Hi,

I am really interested to learn networking subsytem in Linux kernel. So I am trying to start with the kernel build in Fedora 15. I followed the tutorial available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Kernel build really took long time but wat I found out was 4 versions of same kernel is getting build at the end eventhough if I select DEBUG_ONLY option

kernel-debug-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.rpm

Is there any way I can speedup up the kernel build by just building the required version ?

Can anyone tell me the practical way to understand linux network internals via code go through ? I am at present just concentrating more on Ethernet and IP flow .. not much interested with legacy networks or others.

[leigh123linux]

This would speed up the compile time

time rpmbuild --rebuild --with baseonly  --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` kernel-*.src.rpm

[codingfreak]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

This would speed up the compile time

time rpmbuild --rebuild --with baseonly  --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` kernel-*.src.rpm

I will make a try ..

One more doubt.

At present I am trying to just build the kernel source code from FEDORA site. Let us suppose I want to build kernel 3.0 on fedora is there any simple tutorial available ?